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Note that upgrades can be done without service interruption at any point, but downgrades are not possible, so choose appropriately. If you are only going to join vSphere 5.5 hosts, leave it at the default Distributed Switch 5.5.0. For 5.0, choose Distributed Switch 5.0.0. For example – if you need to join a vSphere 4.1 host to this DVS, choose Distributed Switch 4.1.0. If you need to maintain compatibility with an older version of vSphere, then choose the minimum version required. Choose the preferred version for your DVS. Give your new DVS a name, then click Next.Ĥ. Right-click your Datacenter object in inventory (1), then New Distributed Switch (2).ģ. In the vSphere Web Client Home page, click on the Networking icon.Ģ. Up until now, administrators have been slow in adopting the Web Client, so I thought it would be a good idea to outline some common workflows within the Web Client that might be a little foreign if you hadn’t used it before. As vSphere 5.5 will be the last version released with a full Windows C# client ( reference – Derek Seaman’s blog), administrators are going to have to migrate to using the vSphere 5.5 Web Client on a full time basis. Since vSphere 5.1, all of the new features for each vSphere release have only been put into the Web Client, rather than integrating features into both the Web Client and the legacy C# client.